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JP Flores
Education
PhD Candidate, Bioinformatics & Computational Biology
UNC Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC
2025 - 2021
- Graduate Certificate in Innovation for the Public Good
- Advisor: Doug Phanstiel
BA, Cellular & Molecular Biology (Public Health Minor)
Occidental College
Los Angeles, CA
2021 - 2017
Research Experience
Graduate Research Assistant
Phanstiel Lab (UNC-CH School of Medicine)
Chapel Hill, NC
2025 - 2022
- Using computational and wet-lab techniques to investigate the role of 3D chromatin structure in response to environmental stress
- Developing a user interface for the R/Bioconductor data visualization package, plotgardener
Undergraduate Researcher
Schulz Lab (Occidental College Department of Biology)
Los Angeles, CA
2021 - 2017
- Utilize techniques such as DNA isolation, PCR, gel electrophoresis, and HPLC to find medical relevance of venom
- Conduct fieldwork in Kauai to study and capture venomous cone snails
Professional Experience
Data Science Intern
University of Utah David Eccles School of Business Sorenson Impact Center
Salt Lake City, UT
2021 - 2020
- Work alongside the data science team to provide customized data analysis for clients, write code, learn best practices around data sharing and security, as well as create data visualizations and dashboards. Familiarity with Tidyverse set of packages within the R programming language.
Student Manager of the Student Coalition for Higher Education
University of Utah David Eccles School of Business Sorenson Impact Center
Salt Lake City, UT
2021 - 2020
- Manage and engage students in a series of opportunities to inform the work and decisions of higher education professionals and demonstrate a model for IHEs to engage directly with students to develop more equitable, student-centric solutions.
Awards & Accolades
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2025 - 2021
Undergraduate
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2021 - 2017
- Spotify Next Wave Award Winner (2021)
- Trevor Moawad Leadership Award (2021)
- Dean’s Award: Service (2021)
- Capstone Student Leader of the Year Award (2021)
- Lucille Y. Gilman Memorial Award (2021)
- rstudio::global(2021) Diversity Scholar (2021)
- John W. McMenamin Award (2020)
Features & Interviews
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2025 - 2021
- California private colleges fear affirmative action ban as Supreme Court prepares to rule (2023)
- Writing About Race in Biological Science (2023)
- 18 Young Scientists to Watch (2023)
- Three Win NSF Graduate Research Fellowships (2022)
- John Patrick Flores’21: National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship (NSF GRFP) (2022)
Undergraduate
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2021 - 2017
- New biology course explores the COVID-19 pandemic in real time (2020)
- Meet JP Flores - Occidental Baseball (2020)
- S2, Episode 1 - Off the Bench featuring Antonio Andrade and JP Flores (2020)
- OxSEA seeks to clean the ocean and educate LA’s youth (2019)
- Staying for the summer: Undergraduate Research Center provides students and faculty with summer research opportunities (2019)
Teaching Experience
I am passionate about education. I believe that no topic is too complex if the teacher is empathetic and willing to think about new methods of approaching task.
Promoting Inclusivity in the Research Environment
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2024
BCB 723 Statistical Genetics & Genomics
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2023
How to Learn to Code
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2023
WinSpire Dancing with Data!
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2023
WinSpire Digging Deeper
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2023
Academic Support Program for Student-Athletes Tutor
Office of the Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost - UNC-CH
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2023
BIO 268 Biostatistics
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2021
Training & Certifications
Effective Mentoring Training
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2022
- Foundation for developing competencies and skills in effective communication, aligning expectations, assessing progress and understanding, addressing equity and inclusion, fostering independence, cultivating ethical behavior, and being able to articulate a mentoring philosophy to others.
Academic Articles
Advance U.S. international diplomacy efforts by expanding eligibility in the Embassy Science Fellows Program
Journal of Science Policy and Governance
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- Authored with Rami Major and Rachel Cherney
Non-Academic Articles
Invited Talks
The role of 3D chromatin structure in response to environmental stress
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2023
the people of posit: bringing personality to R packages
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2023
Poster Presentations
Hyperosmotic stress induces complete rewiring of chromatin interactions
UNC 6th Annual Chromatin & Epigenetics Symposium
Chapel Hill, NC
2023
Hyperosmotic stress induces complete rewiring of chromatin interactions
Keystone Symposium: Chromatin Architecture in Human Disease & Development
Victoria, BC
2023
Hyperosmotic stress induces complete rewiring of chromatin interactions
10th Annual Mid-Atlantic PREP & IMSD Research Symposium
Blacksburg, VA
2023
Hyperosmotic stress induces complete rewiring of chromatin interactions
5th Annual Dr. Samuel M. Nabrit Conference for Early Career Scholars
Providence, RI
2023
Hyperosmotic stress induces complete rewiring of chromatin interactions
Duke Biomolecular Condensates Symposium
Durham, NC
2023
From Sequence to Activity: Synthetic Neuroexcitatory Peptides from Fish-Hunting Cone Snails
Southern California Conference for Undergraduate Research
San Pedro, CA
2019
From Sequence to Activity: Synthetic Neuroexcitatory Peptides from Fish-Hunting Cone Snails
Society for Intergrative and Comparative Biology Annual Meeting
Austin, TX
2019
From Sequence to Activity: Synthetic Neuroexcitatory Peptides from Fish-Hunting Cone Snails
Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting
San Diego, CA
2018
Service
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professional service
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